Divorce Caf‪é‬ Henderson Reeves Lawyers

What happens when you break up when you are also in business together? Can you keep running it together? What can go wrong? Does it ever go right? If you have been watching Ted Lasso, you will be familiar with the character Rebecca who in the divorce takes over her husband’s beloved football team - “the only thing he ever loved”- and sets about trying to destroy it. In the same way that custody battles can be devastating, a contest over an enterprise you have built from scra...

What happens to the family home when you separate? Who has to move out? Can it be sold out from under you? What if you live in a trust owned house or a rental? We discuss these and other burning questions that keep people up at night. Advice on practical ways to resolve these issues, amicably or through the Courts. And Shelley tells us what advice she would give herself if she could go back to the early days of her separation..."Chill Shelley, it will...

When is it safe to put your house in a trust? That's a question that went all the way to the Supreme Court this year... and spoiler alert, the answer is that the only way to put the family home out of reach of your beloved is to be upfront about it (and contract out). What was the crux of the case? What have we learned about section 44? And what should lawyers be advising their clients? Find out what it's like to take a case to the Supreme Court, why you'd clone a hard...

Does it sound too judgey to say this interview was full of surprises? Kicked out of Morrinsville High School as a teenager, Judge de Jong had a winding path to law, but once he got there has made it his life's work to fight (and innovate) for better outcomes for the victims of family violence. He talks about: lawyers who irritate judges, about setting up the ground breaking, wrap-around Family Violence Court, and his top tips for lawyers and self represented litigants....

What happens when a couple separate while living overseas, and only one wants to return home? If you no longer agree on where to live...what happens to the children?We were lucky enough to speak with Alex Ashmore one of Auckland’s leading experts on Hague Convention cases - fresh from the biennial Hague Convention Convention. Listen for a master class on the how to (and how not to) of Hague Convention work, what you need to know if you are a parent wanting to relocate overseas, an...

Why aren't we judging our relationship property laws by how well they protect children? Champion of children's rights, much loved family law lecturer and family law reformer Professor Mark Henaghan gives us a master class on the laws that exist to protect children caught up in relationship property disputes, their effectiveness, and what we could be doing to improve outcomes for children.More information about MarkWatch the episode here.Read the article here.Interesting Reading:Borrin F...